DeepSeekVerified Active: September 18, 2026
DeepSeek V4-ProAPI Pricing & Specifications
State-of-the-art open reasoning model offering frontier math, code, and agent performance.
📊 Core Specifications & Pricing Rates
Standard Input
$0.43 / 1M tokens
Standard Output
$0.87 / 1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.0036 / 1M tokens
Context Window
1M (1,000,000 tokens)
Max Output Tokens
384,000 tokens
Supported Capabilities:✗ Vision✓ Function Calling / Tools✓ JSON Mode✓ Deep Reasoning
Live Workload Cost Estimator: DeepSeek V4-Pro
Adjust token volumes to simulate your exact monthly API bill.
Estimated 60% repeated context
Estimated Total Monthly Cost
Compare All Models in Calculator→$15.31/ month
$0.00061 per API request(Saves $9.71/mo with caching)
💡 Estimated Monthly Workload Scenarios
Massive Long-Context Codebase Indexing
$278.40/mo20,000 full-repository queries (30,000 input, 1,000 output)
20,000 requests • 30000 in / 1000 out
⚖️ Head-to-Head Competitor Comparisons
DeepSeek V4-Pro vs. Claude Sonnet 5
DeepSeek V4-Pro rivals Sonnet 5 on code reasoning while being nearly 7x cheaper on input and 17x cheaper on output.
6.9x cheaper input, 17x cheaper outputView Claude Sonnet 5 →
📜 Historical Price Changes & Updates
2026-08-10
DeepSeek V4-Pro launched with 1M context, 384K output tokens, and disruptive $0.435/$0.87 pricing.
🔗 Verified Primary Sources
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